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osCommerce - Complete online store solution

2009-01-18T08:53:00.000-08:00

osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease, and is available for free as an Open Source based solution released under the GNU General Public License.

Features

Although osCommerce is still in its development stage, the available Milestone releases are considered to be stable with the following features:

General Functionality
- Compatible with all PHP 4 versions
- All features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box solution
- Object oriented backend (3.0)
- Completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default

Setup / Installation
- Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure

Design / Layout
- Template struture implementation to:
  - allow layout changes to be adaptive, easy, and quickly to make (3.0)
  - allow easy integration into an existing site (3.0)
- Support for dynamic images

Administration / Backend Functionality
- Supports unlimited products and categories
  - Products-to-categories structure
  - Categories-to-categories structure
- Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews
- Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
- Administration area secured with a username and password defined during installation
- Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
- Easily backup and restore the database
- Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
- Statistics for products and customers
- Multilingual support
- Multicurrency support
  - Automatically update currency exchange rates
- Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page
- Support for static and dynamic banners with full statistics

Customer / Frontend Functionality
- All orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval
- Customers can view their order history and order statuses
- Customers can maintain their accounts
  - Addressbook for multiple shipping and billing addresses
- Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers
- Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features
- Product reviews for an interactive shopping experience
- Forseen checkout procedure
- Secure transactions with SSL
- Number of products in each category can be shown or hidden
- Global and per-category bestseller lists
- Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown
- Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation

Product Functionality
- Dynamic product attributes relationship
- HTML based product descriptions
- Automated display of specials
- Control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase
- Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters

Payment Functionality
- Accept numerous offline payment processing (cheque, money orders, offline credit care processing, ..)
- Accept numerous online payment processing (PayPal, 2CheckOut, Authorize.net, iPayment, ..)
- Disable certain payment services based on a zone basis

Shipping Functionality
- Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules
- Real-time quotes available (UPS, USPS, FedEx, ..)
- Free shipping based on amount and destination
- Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis

Tax Functionality
- Flexible tax implementation on a state and country basis
- Set different tax rates for different products
- Charge tax on shipping on a per shipping service basis

Download OsCommerce

Cost-Cutting Storage Strategies for Small Businesses

2009-01-18T08:03:00.001-08:00

As data relentlessly accumulates, small businesses need to find ways to store and protect. We take a look at cost-saving strategies and new technology on the immediate horizon.

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Linux flavours - List is growing

2009-01-17T21:30:00.000-08:00

64 Studio
Absolute
Adamantix
aLinux
Alphalinux
Annvix
AntiX
Arch Linux
Ark Linux
ARM Linux
Arudius
Asianux
ASLinux Desktop
ASPLinux
Astaro Security Linux
ATOS Linux
Aurox Linux
Austrumi
BasicLinux
Bayanihan Linux
BeaFanatIX
Berry Linux
BioBrew Linux
blag
BlueCat Linux
blueflops
Bonzai Linux
BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions)
BRaiLleSPEAK
Brazil Firewall and Router
BU Linux
Càtix
CCux Linux
CensorNet
CentOS
CERN Linux
CHAINSAWLINUX
ClarkConnect
Coyote Linux
CRUX
Damn Small Linux
Danix
Dappix
DARKSTAR Linux
Debian GNU/Linux
DeLi Linux
Devil-Linux
DietLinux
DiscoverStation
Dreamcast Linux Distribution
dyne:bolic
eduKnoppix
ELinOS
Elive
ELKS
eLux
EmbLin
EnGarde Secure Linux
Feather Linux
Fedora
Fermi Linux
FireCast Software Suite for Kiosks
Firegate Server
Flash Linux
Fli4L
floppyfw
Foresight Linux
FoxLinux
FREEDUC
Freesco
Freespire
Galinux
Games Knoppix
GCL- Grey Cat Linux
GeeXboX
Gentoo Linux
Gentoox
Gibraltar
GNU/Linux UTUTO
GoblinX
GoboLinux
Granular Linux
grml
Hakin9 Live
Hard Hat Linux
Hikarunix
Honung Linux
HostGIS Linux
Icebreaker
IDMS Linux
Impi Linux
INSERT
Insigne GNU/Linux
Intrinsyc Linux
IPCop Firewall
iPodLinux
JAILBAIT
K12LTSP
Kanotix
Keeper Linux
KNOPPIX
LiMP
Lineox Enterprise Linux
Linpus Linux
Linspire
LinuxInstall.org
LinuxROM (aka PizzaBox distro)
LinVDR
LVP
Mandriva
Mastodon Linux
MEPIS Linux
MkLinux
Momonga
Morphix
Musix
Myah OS
myOS
neoLinux
NimbleX
O-Net
Openfiler
OpenLX Linux
Openwall GNU/Linux - Owl
Paldo
Pardus
PA-RISC Linux
Parsix GNU/Linux
Parted Magic
PCLinuxOS
PCQuest Linux
Pie Box Enterprise Linux
Pioneer Linux
PKLinux
PLD Linux Distribution
Pocket Linux
Puppy
pure:dyne
PXES
QiLinux
Quantian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
RedHawk Linux
Rock Linux
Roku OS
rpath Linux
SAM
Santa Fe Linux
Sauver
Scientific Linux
ScrudgeWare
Security-Enhanced Linux
Sidux
Slackware Linux
Slamd64
SLAX
SLYNUX
Small Linux
smoothwall
SoL - Server optimized Linux
SoL-diag
Source Mage GNU/Linux
StartCom Linux
stresslinux
STUX GNU/Linux
SUSE Linux
Symphony OS
tinysofa
tomsrtbt
Tomukas
TopologiLinux
Trustix Secure Linux
ttylinux
Tuquito GNU/Linux
TurboLinux
Ubuntu Linux
uClinux
Ulteo
UMCE Linux
VectorLinux
VideoLinux
VLOS
Voyage Linux
White Box Linux
White Glove Linux
Xandros
X-Evian
Yellow Dog Linux
Yoper
Yu0-GNU-Linux
Zenwalk
Zeroshell
ZipHam
ZipSpeak

Green Software?

2009-01-14T00:41:00.000-08:00

There is Green Food, Green Computing... why not Green Software?

Green Computing makes computing echo friendly and minimizes usage of energy on the lines of Triple Bottom Line. When it comes to Open Source Software, community should also aim to follow the Triple bottom line (People, Planet and Profit).

I have observed that many open source communities already adopted Green in their Logos, Websites and User Interface. Let's see how open source software community either following or should follow Triple Bottom Line (TBL)

People - Make open source software more user friendly and let more people start using Open Source Software
Planet - Make open source software less resource hungry
Profit - The benefit enjoyed by the Open Source Software users community

Open Source Software Community already following most of the TBL policies, so I do not hesitate calling Open Source Software as Green Software.
Go Green should be the open source community new mantra.

The 10 Coolest Open Source Products Of 2008.....

2009-01-13T01:39:00.001-08:00

Open Source Software is about more than just the Linux operating system, and 2008 brought advances in the form of OpenOffice.org, IBM Lotus Symphony, Firefox and Android. But Linux is still the heart of the FOSS movement, and this year brought key developments in the operating system as well. Here's a look at the coolest open source products.....

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OLAT - Online Learning And Training

2009-01-09T09:20:00.000-08:00

Recently we have come across yet another open source Learning Management System OLAT short form of Online Learning And Training. OLAT mostly written in Java which supports around 700 users simultaneously on a standard Linux server.

It has simple yet powerful front end, users will find it easy to navigate through the system. OLAT is multilingual and supports more than 15 languages. OLAT supports e-learning standards such as SCORM, IMS CP and QTI etc.

Following are few features of OLAT

Users & Groups

Unlimited number of accounts

Different roles

Various authentication methods

Administrators can add, modify or delete users

Personalized authoring and learning environment

Manage your files via HTTP or WebDAV

Calendar (per course, per group and combined personal calendar)

Instant Messenger: See who is online and chat with others using either the integrated chat client (AJAX based) or an external Jabber client

Authentication Options

Users can create their own accounts (with/without approval by administrators)

Direct login into OLAT with OLAT user name and password

Access file system via WebDAV login

Course Management

Flexible course system

Based on IMS learning design concepts

Create a personalized course structure according to your needs

Course editor: create your course using OLAT course elements

Group management: manage your learners

Rights management: grant specific users access to course tools

Assessment tool: assess your learners

Course Elements OLAT Offers

Wiki

Single pages with integrated WYSIWYG HTML editor

Include external pages or sites via tunneling

Both SCORM and IMS Content Packages

Tasks with drop box, sample solution and scores

Tests (with scores) and self-tests (anonymous, no scores) based on QTI standard

Questionnaire for course evaluations

e-learning and cource management systems

2009-01-01T08:48:00.000-08:00

Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

Moodle is open source web application that you can use to create interactive web sites where teachers and students can communicate and collaborate in educational ways. It needs to be installed on a web server somewhere (which could be one of your own computers or one at a web hosting company).

The focus of the Moodle project is always on giving educators the best tools to manage and promote learning , but there are many ways to use Moodle:

* Moodle has features that allow it to scale to very large deployments and hundreds of thousands of students, yet it can also be used for a primary school or an education hobbyist.
* Many institutions use Moodle as their platform to conduct fully online courses, while some use it simply to augment face-to-face courses (known as blended learning).
* Many of Moodle users love to use the many activity modules (such as Forums, Wikis, Databases and so on) to build richly collaborative communities of learning around their subject matter (in the social constructionist tradition), while others prefer to use Moodle as a way to deliver content to students (such as standard SCORM packages) and assess learning using assignments or quizzes.

Check out the online demo of Moodle here or download and start using.

Open Source Projects Index: X & Y

2008-04-16T19:11:00.001-07:00


X.Org X.Org Foundation is the worldwide consortium empowered with the stewardship and collaborative development of the X Window System technology and standards.

Xen Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems.

XFS XFS combines advanced journaling technology with full 64-bit addressing and scalable structures and algorithms.

XML Forms Generator XML Forms Generator now includes a schema-flattening utility, an auto-detect renderer option, Eclipse V3.2 support, and Eclipse WTP V1.5 support, and more. This standards-based, data-driven Eclipse plug-in generates functional forms with XForms mark-up embedded within an XHTML document on Red Hat.

Yaboot Yaboot is a PowerPC bootloader for Open Firmware based machines including New World Apple Macintosh, IBM RS/6000, IBM pSeries and IBM OpenPower machines. Courtesy: IBM

Open Source Projects Index: U, V & W

2008-04-16T19:10:00.001-07:00


UDDI for Python A Python package that allows the sending of requests to and processing of responses from the UDDI Version 2 APIs.

USAGI Project -- Linux IPv6 Development Project USAGI(UniverSAl playGround for Ipv6) Project works to deliver the production quality IPv6 and IPsec(for both IPv4 and IPv6) protocol stack for the Linux system, tightly collaborating with WIDE Project, KAME Project and TAHI Project.

USB The Linux USB project develops USB support for the Linux kernel.

Visual Editor Project The Eclipse Visual Editor project is a vendor-neutral, open development platform supplying frameworks for creating GUI builders, and exemplary, extensible tool implementations for Swing/JFC and SWT/RCP. These tools are exemplary in that they verify the utility of the Eclipse Visual Editor frameworks, illustrate the appropriate use of those frameworks, and support the development and maintenance of the Eclipse Visual Editor Platform itself.

Visual Performance Analyzer Visual Performance Analyzer (VPA) is an Eclipse-based performance visualization toolkit, similar to Intel's VTune, and AMD's CodeAnalyst for Linux, Java and Windows platforms. It uses three major components that work to narrow down performance problems, show statistics, and examine code execution on IBM POWER processors.

Web Services Description Language for Java Toolkit The Web Services Description Language for Java Toolkit (WSDL4J) allows the creation, representation, and manipulation of WSDL documents describing services. This codebase is the reference implementation of the standard created by JSR110.

wsbpeltc: Oasis WS BPEL TC (private project) Provides documents being edited collaboratively by the OASIS WS BPEL Technical Committee. Courtesy: IBM

Open Source Projects Index: T

2008-04-16T19:09:00.002-07:00


TAHI Project TAHI Project is the joint effort formed with the objective of developing and providing the verification technology for IPv6.

TCK for JWSDL (JSR 110) JWSDL TCK is the technology compatibility kit for Java APIs for WSDL (JWSDL). JWSDL is a Java Specification Request (JSR) being developed under the Java Community Process. This TCK is to be used to test a JWSDL implementation for compliance with the specification.

Tcl extension library Tcl/SMAPI is a Tcl extension library that makes possible the use of the IBM Speech Manager Applications Programming Interface (SMAPI) in Tcl scripts. SMAPI is the connection between the user interface and the speech recognition engine for the IBM ViaVoice family of products, and Tcl/SMAPI uses the same speech recognition engine, or "run time", as the ViaVoice products.

Tcl/SMAPI Tcl/SMAPI is a Tcl extension library that makes possible the use of the IBM Speech Manager API (SMAPI) in Tcl scripts.

TrouSerS TrouSerS is an open-source TCG software stack implementation. Courtesy: IBM

Open Source Projects Index: S

2008-04-16T19:09:00.001-07:00


Samba Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.

SBLIM (Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability) SBLIM, the Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability, helps make GNU/Linux systems easier to manage. It does this by enabling GNU/Linux for WBEM (Web Based Enterprise Management), which is a set of standards defined by the DMTF and fostered by the WBEMsource initiative. This project is licensed under the Common Public License.

Service and productivity tools for Linux on POWER systems Hardware service diagnostic aids and productivity tools for IBM servers running Linux operating systems on Power4 and Power5 processors.

Software Test Automation Framework The Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF) is an open source, multi-platform, multi-language framework designed around the idea of reusable components, called services.

Standards Based Linux Instrumentaion for Manageability SBLIM (pronounced "sublime"), the Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability is an IBM Open Source project, intended to enhance the manageability of GNU/Linux systems. It does so by enabling GNU/Linux for WBEM, Web Based Enterprise Management, a set of standards defined by the DMTF and fostered by the WBEMsource initiative.

strace strace prints out a trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program.

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) The Linux Kernel Stream Control Transmission Protocol (lksctp) project is an implementation of the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) in the Linux kernel.

sysfsutils: System Utilities Based on Sysfs A set of utilities built upon sysfs, a new virtual filesystem in Linux kernel versions 2.5+ that exposes a system's device tree.

System Configurator System Configurator is a utility for automatically configuring networking and bootstrapping in a Linux Distribution and Architecture agnostic way.

System Installation Suite System Installation Suite is a set of tools to simplify installation and management of large numbers of machines. It is distribution and architecture agnostic.

System Installer System Installer is an installation tool which is designed to build Linux images. It can be used to build and install an image directly to a machine, or it may build secondary images to be distributed to remote clients. It is designed to integrate well into System Configurator and System Imager.

SystemTap The SystemTap project aims to produce a Linux tool that lets application developers and system administrators take a deeper look into a running kernel. Courtesy: IBM

Open Source Projects Index: R

2008-04-16T19:08:00.000-07:00


RAID and Data Protection Solutions for Linux RAID, short for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, is a method whereby information is spread across several disks, using techniques such as disk striping (RAID Level 0) and disk mirroring (RAID level 1) to achieve redundancy, lower latency and/or higher bandwidth for reading and/or writing, and recoverability from hard-disk crashes.

Realtime Linux Security Module Linux Security Modules project provides a lightweight, general purpose framework for access control.

ReiserFS v3 ReiserFS is a journaling filesystem. It is very good at dealing with large numbers of small files.

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) The OpenRDMA project is an open source implementation of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) service enablement layers in Linux.

Robocode In Robocode, you program a robotic battletank in Java for a fight to the finish. The game is designed to help you learn Java, and have fun doing it from a simple 10-line robot to a very sophisticated, intelligent robot that destroys the competition! Courtesy: IBM

Open Source Projects Index: P

2008-04-16T19:07:00.001-07:00


Performance Inspector The Performance Inspector provides a mechanism to collect performance trace data in a convenient way. It provides a core set of hooks in the kernel to keep track of scheduling, interrupt, cpu, and other events.

PHP PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language for creating dynamic Web pages. Information and tools for PHP developers are available on developerWorks at PHP project resources.

PHP Security Consortium The PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC) is an international group of PHP experts dedicated to promoting secure programming practices within the PHP community.

PilotBean PilotBean is a package that provides a Java interface to the 3Com PalmPilot (TM) device via Pilot Desktop application.

Postfix Postfix is a somewhat-sendmail-compatible mailer that attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure.

PowerPC Performance Libraries This project provides performance optimized library functions for IBM PowerPC 4xx embedded processors. The libraries cover floating-point emulation and common C library string and memory functions.
Courtesy: IBM

Open Source Projects Index: O

2008-04-16T19:06:00.002-07:00


Open Cluster Framework Project The purpose of this project is to define standard clustering APIs for some basic capabilities.

Open Internationalization Initiative The Free Standards Group Open Internationalization Initiative (OpenI18N) is a voluntary working group that IBM is sponsoring. The group focuses on software and application portability and interoperability in the international context.

Open Object Rexx Team Object REXX is an interpreted scripting language based on Programming Language REXX.

Open Visualization Data Explorer Open Visualization Data Explorer is a visualization framework that gives users the ability to apply advanced visualization and analysis techniques to their data. These techniques can be applied to help users gain new insights into data from applications in a wide variety of fields including science, engineering, medicine and business.

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Visit the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), a free and open application security community dedicated to finding and fighting the causes of insecure software.

OpenAFS AFS is a distributed filesystem offering a client-server architecture for file sharing, providing location independence, scalability and transparent migration capabilities for data.

openCryptoki openCryptoki is a PKCS#11 implementation for Linux. It includes drivers and libraries to enable IBM cryptographic hardware as well as a software token for testing.

OpenDX OpenDX is a powerful package for the visualization of scientific, engineering and analytical data.

OpenHPI OpenHPI is a project intended to provide an implementation of the SA Forum's Hardware Platform Interface.

OpenI18N The OpenI18N specification is a globalization specification for open source platforms.

OpenLDAP OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. The suite includes utilities, tools, libraries, and sample clients.

OpenPegasus Pegasus is an open-source implementation of the DMTF CIM and WBEM standards. It is designed to be portable and highly modular.

OpenPrinting OpenPrinting is a set of standards that will address the needs of desktop to enterprise-ready printing

OpenSSH on AIX Open SSH for AIX.

Oprofile OProfile is a system-wide profiler for Linux systems, capable of profiling all running code at low overhead.

OS/2 to Linux Porting Package OS/2 Linux is a run-time shared object library for console-based applications. It provides the OS/2 base set of APIs in a dynamically linked run-time library. It also supplies a set of custom OS/2 header files to be used in place of the standard files during the compilation of GCC compiler source code. Courtesy: IBM

Open Source Projects Index: N

2008-04-16T19:06:00.001-07:00


Native POSIX Thread Library Effort to develop a standard Linux POSIX thread library.

Netfilter simulation environment The netfilter simulator provides a means to run netfilter code in userspace. This allows significantly easier debugging and testing of what would otherwise be kernel-bound code.

NFS Development of NFS in the Linux kernel. Courtesy: IBM

Open Source Projects Index: M

2008-04-16T19:05:00.001-07:00


Memory Expansion Technology for Linux Memory eXpansion Technology (MXT) is a hardware technology for compressing main memory contents.

Mesa 3D Graphics Library Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API that is very similar to that of OpenGL.

Mobile IPv6 for Linux MIPL Mobile IPv6 for Linux up to release 1.1 is a full kernel space implementation of the Mobile IPv6 specification.

Model Development Tools Model Development Tools are an EMF-based implementation of the UML 2.0 metamodel for the Eclipse platform.

Mod_Rexx Mod_Rexx is an Apache loadable module which interfaces to Rexx. All phases of an Apache request can be processed with Mod_Rexx. It supports Open Object Rexx and Regina Rexx.

Mozilla Creates the Mozilla and Firefox web browsers, an e-mail client, and other software. Courtesy: IBM

Open Source Projects Index: L

2008-04-16T19:04:00.000-07:00

Life Science Identifiers
This project implements the Life Science Indentifier (LSID) resolution protocol, to locate biologically significant data over a network, within middle-ware providing a client A.P.I. for Life Science applications, and server software, for Industry data providers.

Linux Channel Bonding
The Linux bonding driver provides network device aggregation, load balancing, and hot standby facilities.

Linux Diagnostics Tools
Linux Diagnostic Tools project focuses on diagnostic tools, first failure data capture, error log analysis, preventative testing, and system inventory gathering.

Linux Kernel
The primary site for the Linux kernel source and related information.


Linux Kernel Crash Dumps This project involves adding code to the Linux kernel to implement crash dumps for performing post-failure analysis of a kernel crash.

Linux Kernel Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a reliable, message-oriented, multihomed transport protocol. Developed by the IETF SIGTRAN working group to transport SS7 over IP, it is now the third general-purpose transport developed by the IETF.

Linux Memory Hotplug Support Project to create hotplug memory for Linux.

Linux on System Z Linux is an operating system whose kernel was developed by Linus Torvalds and initially distributed in 1991. Linux has evolved to become a widely accepted operating system with a wealth of applications. Today, many Linux distributions also contain a variety of tools and utilities provided by the open source community (e.g., from the GNU project). Linux is platform-independent and executes on many architectures, including Intel®, Alpha®, or Sparc®. Linux is Open Source software that may be downloaded free of charge.

Linux orinoco wireless NIC driver Linux orinoco driver supports a large number of wireless NICs based on the Prism 2 chipset.

Linux Screen Reader The Linux Screen Reader (LSR) is an application that transforms the contents of the computer screen to other media, enabling non-visual access to the graphical Gnome desktop environment.

Linux Standard Base Tasked to develop and promote a set of standards that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software applications to run on any compliant system.

Linux Support for Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) Hardware NUMA is one way to reduce the number of CPUs competing for access to a shared memory bus. This is accomplished by having several memory buses and only having a small number of CPUs on each of those buses.

Linux Test Project The latest revision of the Linux Test Project test suite contains more than 2,100 tests for Linux.

Lotus Sametime Code Exchange Get code samples and JAR files that add functionality to Sametime, an instant messenger client application.

LTC Linux Performance Team Project to improve Linux kernel performance, with special emphasis on SMP scalability, by using open source workloads.

Courtesy: IBM

Open Source Projects Index: K

2008-04-16T19:03:00.001-07:00


Kernel Asynchronous I/O (AIO) Support for Linux AIO enables even a single application thread to overlap I/O operations with other processing, by providing an interface for submitting one or more I/O requests in one system call (io_submit()) without waiting for completion, and a separate interface (io_getevents()) to reap completed I/O operations associated with a given completion group.

Kernel Debugger (KDB) KDB debugger is part of the linux kernel and provides a means of examining kernel memory and data structures while the system is operational.

Kexec/Kdump Kdump is a kexec-based crash dumping mechanism for Linux.

kinput2 Kinput2 is an X window application to input Japanese text. It acts as a front-end for other applications that want kana-kanji conversion.

Kprobes Kernel Dynamic Probes (Kprobes) provides a lightweight interface for kernel modules to implant probes and register corresponding probe handlers.

Open Source Projects Index: J

2008-04-16T19:02:00.002-07:00


Java Development Tools Project The JDT project provides the tool plug-ins that implement a Java IDE supporting the development of any Java application, including Eclipse plug-ins. It adds a Java project nature and Java perspective to the Eclipse Workbench as well as a number of views, editors, wizards, builders, and code merging and refactoring tools. The JDT project allows Eclipse to be a development environment for itself.

Java POS Config Loader Provides configuration and loading of device services developed to the JavaPOS architecture and standards.

JFS for Linux IBM's journaled file system technology, currently used in IBM enterprise servers, is designed for high-throughput server environments, key to running intranet and other high-performance e-business file servers. IBM is contributing this technology to the Linux open source community with the hope that some or all of it will be useful in bringing the best of journaling capabilities to the Linux operating system.

Jikes Jikes is a compiler for Java. Jikes' most popular feature is the fast compile speed gained by built-in dependence analysis and incremental compilation, as well as being written in C++ rather than Java.

Jikes Research Virtual Machine (Jikes RVM) The Jikes Research Virtual Machine (RVM) is designed to execute Java programs that are typically used in research on fundamental virtual machine design issues. It will provide academic and research communities with a flexible testbed to prototype new virtual machine technologies and experiment with different design alternatives.

Journaled File System Technology for Linux IBM's journaled file system technology, currently used in IBM enterprise servers, is designed for high-throughput server environments, key to running intranet and other high-performance e-business file servers. IBM is contributing this technology to the Linux open source community with the hope that some or all of it will be useful in bringing the best of journaling capabilities to the Linux operating system.

JTOpen The IBM Toolbox for Java / JTOpen is the open source version of the IBM Toolbox for Java Licensed Program Product (LPP). Courtesy: IBM

Open Source Projects Index: H & I

2008-04-16T19:02:00.001-07:00


High Availability Linux (Linux-HA) High Availability Linux project seeks to provide a high-availability (clustering) solution for Linux that promotes reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) through a community development effort.

IBM DB2 JDBC Universal Driver, for Apache Derby Network Server IBM DB2 JDBC Universal Driver for the Apache Derby Network Server is the driver used by the client to make a connection to the Derby Network Server using DRDA. This driver is provided with Cloudscape 10.0, however it is not included with the Derby Network Server. It can be downloaded from this page, free of charge, for use in an Apache Derby Network Server environment.

IBM Toolbox for Java The IBM Toolbox for Java is a library of Java classes supporting the client/server and internet programming model to an i5/OS system.

IBM TuningFork Visualization Tool for Real-Time Systems IBM TuningFork: Visualization of Real-Time Systems is an Eclipse-based visualization and performance analysis tool for real-time applications with support for Java, C++, IBM's Real-time JVM, and Linux. TuningFork enhances data exploration and performance analysis by coupling a powerful data-processing mechanism with a high-performing user interface.

Infiniband Development effort to add the InfiniBand stack to the Linux kernel.

International Components for Unicode (ICU) The International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries provides high performance, robust, and full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of platforms. It offers great flexibility to add globalization, internationalization, and localization features to all of your C/C++ applications.

International Components for Unicode for Java (ICU4J) Unicode is the universal character set that's the foundation for modern software internationalization. The ICU4J project is dedicated to providing full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available Unicode-based technologies in Java.

iSCSI The Linux iSCSI driver acts as an iSCSI protocol initiator to transport SCSI requests and responses over an IP network between the client and an iSCSI-enabled target device such as a Cisco SN 5428-2 storage router.

iterm iterm is a platform-independent framework for making Internationalized Virtual Terminal Emulator. The OpenI18N specification is a globalization specification for open source platforms.

Open Source Projects Index: F & G

2008-04-16T19:01:00.000-07:00


File Hierarchy Standard A set of requirements and guidelines for file and directory placement under UNIX-like operating systems.

GCC extension for stack smashing protection Applications written in C will be protected by the method that automatically inserts protection code into an application at compilation time.

Globus Toolkit The Globus Toolkit is an open source toolkit for building grids.

GNU Binutils GNU Binutils are a collection of binary tools, including ld and as.

GNU C Library (Glibc) The GNU C library is used as the C library in the GNU system and most systems with the Linux kernel.

GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection, includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages.

GNU Debugger (GDB) GNU Project debugger allows you to see what is going on "inside" another program while it executes. or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed.

Graphical Editor Framework Project The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) allows developers to take an existing application model and quickly create a rich graphical editor.

GTK+ GTK+ is a multiplatform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Courtesy: IBM

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e2fsprogs The e2fsprogs package provides file system utilities for use with ext2 and also supports the ext3 file system with journaling.

Eclipse Community Education Project The goal of the Eclipse Community Education Project (ECESIS) is to promote the creation, improvement and distribution of commercial and academic quality Eclipse courseware, education and training technologies, and resource material.

Eclipse Modeling Framework Project EMF is a modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured data model.

Eclipse Platform Subproject The Eclipse Platform subproject provides the core frameworks and services upon which all plug-in extensions are created. It also provides the runtime in which plug-ins are loaded, integrated, and executed. The primary purpose of the Platform subproject is to enable other tool developers to easily build and deliver integrated tools.

Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment Project The PDE project provides a number of views and editors that make is easier to build plug-ins for Eclipse. Using the PDE, you can create your plug-in manifest file (plugin.xml), specify your plug-in runtime and other required plug-ins, define extension points, including their specific markup, associate XML Schema files with the extension point markup so extensions can be validated, create extensions on other plug-in extension points, etc. The PDE makes integrating plug-ins easy and fun.

Eclipse Web Tools Platform project The Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project extends the Eclipse platform with tools for developing Web and Java EE applications. It includes source and graphical editors for a variety of languages, wizards and built-in applications to simplify development, and tools and APIs to support deploying, running, and testing apps.

eCryptfs eCryptfs is a cryptographic filesystem that stacks on top of existing filesystems. It provides functionality similar to that of GnuPG, only the process of encrypting and decrypting the data is done transparently from the perspective of the application.

Embedded IBM PowerPC 4xx Linux Support delete

Embedded Rich Client Platform Project eRCP's intent is to extend the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) to embedded devices. It is largely a set of components that are subsets of RCP components. It basically enables the same application model used on desktop machines to be used on devices.

Enterprise Class Event Logging An open-source, platform-independent event logging facility for Linux.

Enterprise Volume Management System A plug-in architecture that allows for easy expansion and customization of various levels of volume management.

Equinox Project The goal of the Equinox project is to experiment with techniques for broadening the range of Eclipse platform runtime configurations. For example, the Eclipse plugin model is static. There is no discussion of practices and tools for managing/reducing interplugin dependencies, service discovery is not covered and the component distribution mechanism is non-standard.

Ethereal A powerful protocol analyzer.

Event Logging Linux Event Logging for Enterprise-Class Systems logs events and informational messages from kernel subsystems and system applications. The project aims, without affecting calls to printk/klog and syslog, to provide a system-wide log with event records of fixed structure that represent attributes of the event record and a variable-length data buffer containing the event data (text or binary).

Explicit Multicast (XCAST) Explicit Multicast (XCAST) is a new form of IP multicast, designed to provide scalable support for very large number of multicast groups, where these groups typically have a small number of participants. Courtesy: IBM

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Device Mapper Device Mapper is a component of the Linux kernel that supports logical volume management.

DHCPv6 DHCPv6 is a stateful address autoconfiguration protocol for IPv6, a counterpart to IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration protocol.

Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) DRI is a framework for allowing direct access to graphics hardware under the X Window System in a safe and efficient manner.

Dynamic Probe Class Library Dynamic Probe Class Library (DPCL) is an object based C++ class library that provides the necessary infrastructure to allow tool developers and sophisticated tool users to build parallel and serial tools through technology called dynamic instrumentation.

Dynamic Probes DProbes is a debugging facility designed to work under extreme or inaccessible conditions. It gathers diagnostic information by dynamically firing probes into executing code modules, relying on user-written probe-handlers.

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C/C++ Development Tools Project The CDT (C/C++ Development Tools) Project is working towards providing a fully functional C and C++ IDE for Eclipse.

Carrier Grade Linux with OSDL Linux optimized with the availability, scalability, and service response characteristics required by carrier-grade applications.

Castor Castor is an open source data-binding framework for Java. It's the shortest path between Java objects, XML documents, and relational tables. Castor provides Java-to-XML binding, Java-to-SQL persistence, and more.

Class-based Kernel Resource Management (CKRM) The CKRM project seeks to develop Linux kernel mechanisms providing differentiated service to resources such as CPU time, memory pages, I/O and incoming network bandwith based on user-defined groups of tasks.

Cloudscape and ODBC ODBC is available for the Cloudscape 10.0 GA and Derby databases as an IBM® DB2 Run-Time client. The use of Derby and ODBC is currently available as a beta. This article discusses platforms, system requirements and information about where to download the free driver.

COIN (Common Optimization INterface) Developers can use Common Optimization INterface (COIN) to build optimization solutions. IBM mathematical optimization researchers opened the code they use in finding the optimal allocation of limited resources. The code has many applications in a variety of industries.

Compound XML Document Toolkit Add a voice editing toolkit for Eclipse with the newly updated Compound XML Document Toolkit. It works well with HTML and XML content models and now supports Eclipse V3.2 and Eclipse WTP V1.5. This plug-in for Red Hat uses XML schemas to build Web applications that include voice, graphics, mathematical computations, data entry forms, and other content on a single page without extensive hand coding.

Content Query System (CQS) Project: Summary Content Query System (CQS). CQS is a distributed peer-to-peer query system for the purpose of discovering content or data. XML messages are passed between systems and query "engines" are used to access the data that is being made available on the system.

CProf Cprof is an enhanced performance profiler tool written in C++ for use with C/C++ programs under GNU/Linux.

Crypto Accelerator Driver Device Driver Support for the IBM eServer Cryptographic Accelerator.

Cscope Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing source code.

Open Source Projects Index: B

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Bugzilla Bugzilla is server software designed to help you manage software development.

Build-to-Manage (BtM) Toolkits The Build-to-Manage (BtM) Toolkits make it easy to add manageability to distributed Java technology applications. Each toolkit focuses on a different facet of the manageability opportunity.

buxom Project: Summary Buxom is an XPCOM to Bonobo bridge, which can make it easier to invoke Bonobo components from XPCOM by translating the CORBA IDL to XPCOM form, and generating XPCOM component implementation boilder plate.